Safari is preparing to say goodbye to classic passwords. With future versions of Apple's operating systems for iPhone and Mac, the Cupertino browser will support Face ID and Touch ID as authentication systems for websites that support the function. The news was officially confirmed in the note released by the company relating to the beta version of the proprietary browser with a lot of videos to explain to developers how to integrate it on their portals.
The functionality is based on the FIDO2 WebAuthn standard developed by the FIDO Alliance, an association created with the aim of developing and promoting an authentication standard that does without alphanumeric passwords. After Google, Facebook, Amazon, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung and other players in the technology sector, Apple also joined the association last February.
The new solution, therefore, aims to pay access to websites safer and at the same time faster. Just use your fingerprint or face recognition to log into a website, instead of typing your username and password. Apple, therefore, is preparing to say goodbye to alphanumeric codes considered less secure and more vulnerable than biometric systems. Obviously, this type of authentication will be usable only on websites that decide to adopt it.
In short, Apple expands its support for the FIDO 2 standard even further. The Californian company, in fact, had added support for physical keys for Safari last year. Therefore, it is a natural evolution of that process that could lead to the definitive disappearance of alphanumeric passwords.
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